06/05/2010

Starting on Monday 7th June, pupils from class 6 at Porchester Junior School in Nottingham will begin to research information about Italy. Not only will we be looking at the World Cup squad, and previous teams, we'll also be looking at the culture, the climate, geographical features, the history, iconic people and places of Italy.

Venice is famous for canals all aroud with houses right next to them. There are no streets so if you want to travel you will have to go by boat.

There is alot of mosquitoes there and the weather is hot and if you want water you cant get it from the tap you will have to go out and buy bottles of water.

In Venice there are 116,226 families, there population is 271,073. It is in northen east Italy and there population name is Veneziani.

The patron saint is San Marco. The mayor is Massimo Cacciari. Venice has been known as the La Dominante Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic city, of the water, city of masks, city of bridges, the floating city and city of canals.

Roman soilders had a cape and a sword and a shield. Roman solders fight in war time and they where feather hats with feathes on the top of there hat.

Roman soldiers like to battle. Roman soldiers fight other soldiers. Roman soldiers ride on horses. The shield is really strong it is good in war time. Roman soldiers have a spear. The soilders are in legions. There are over 5,000. The roman soilders have a number each. When they train they have a wooden spear and a wooden sword and a wooden shield. They have a flag and a pole and on the flag they have a word wot says LEGXX to help to be brave.

The legate was the leader of a legion. One of the early legionary legates in Britain called Vespasian went on to become emperor.